Hey,
There's already http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MWReleases that
does server part of version checks for core, it could be tweaked to supply version information for extensions, too.
Although that suffices for determining if your version is up to date or not, it does not allow for actual update fetching and all the related stuff such as dependency resolution and simply browsing through available extensions in the repository, as you have with WordPress.
When for updates to the software, both core and extensions the system is
to phone home, it makes sense to integrate the LocalisationUpdate functionality and make it a more complete package.
Yes, that makes a lot of sense. I was not aware this functionality existed, so I'm definitely going to have a look at it now.
Cheers
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On 30 July 2010 16:20, Max Semenik maxsem.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On 30.07.2010, 17:44 Jeroen wrote:
I'm currently looking into the repository and package fetching parts do allow for such "dialling home". MediaWiki.org seems the obvious choice to have the main repository on. There are many ways to then provide the
needed
data. Personally I think the best approach would be to install Semantic MediaWiki (yes, I used the s-word!) so data from the extension pages can
be
queried and shown in a distribution metadata format. That might require a small extension for some new spacial pages, and some scripts to collect other existing version data and put it into the wiki.
There's already http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MWReleases that does server part of version checks for core, it could be tweaked to supply version information for extensions, too.
Is it possible to get SMW onto MW.org? This would also finally be a proof
of
concept of SMW on a WMF wiki, on which a lot of people have been waiting
a
long time now.
Last time I heard about it, it had huge problems with security and code quality. Did anything change positively in that area over the last several months? If s***c developers believe that all Tim's concerns have been addressed, they should resubmit it for review.
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